Tony Bradley

  • Recognized with 2014 Microsoft MVP award

    Recognized with 2014 Microsoft MVP award

    It’s official! I received notification yesterday that Microsoft has awarded me the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) designation for the ninth consecutive year. The email proclaims: “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2014 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world…

  • Facebook’s ‘experiment’ isn’t evil, it’s just marketing 101

    Facebook’s ‘experiment’ isn’t evil, it’s just marketing 101

    Facebook is taking a lot of heat after revelations that it conducted experiments with user’s social network newsfeeds. The outrage is unjustified, though. All Facebook really did is AB testing. It’s Marketing 101, and it’s used by a variety of industries for various purposes. First, a little background on Facebook’s transgressions. According to a study…

  • Amazon offering bundle of over 30 popular paid apps for free

    Amazon offering bundle of over 30 popular paid apps for free

    FREE. That is all. OK, it’s not really all–but need I say more? Amazon is offering 31 of the most popular paid apps for free for two days only–Friday June 27, and Saturday June 28. If you have a Kindle Fire–or any Android device for that matter–now is your chance to download $100 worth of…

  • Comparing OneDrive for Business with Google Drive for Work

    Comparing OneDrive for Business with Google Drive for Work

    Microsoft announced in April that it is raising the OneDrive for Business storage for Office 365 business accounts to 1TB, and earlier this week that it will also bump the OneDrive storage to 1TB for Office 365 consumer accounts. At Google I/O this week, Google countered by announcing a new Drive for Work plan with…

  • Lancope survey: Security awareness trending up

    Lancope survey: Security awareness trending up

    You may be familiar with those “The More You Know” public service announcements that used to run on NBC. The premise is a good one–that knowledge is key, and the more you know, the more you’re able to make intelligent, informed decisions. Nowhere is that more true than security awareness for computer and information security.…

  • 1TB of OneDrive data is basically the same as ‘unlimited’

    1TB of OneDrive data is basically the same as ‘unlimited’

    ` It’s like having a limit that you’re only allowed to eat 10 gallons of ice cream per day, or you can only watch 24 hours per day of television. No matter what the subject is, there is a point where a “limit” is so high that for all practical purposes it ceases to function…